Shiawassee County Commissioners, Michigan, 2010

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Shiawassee County Commission and Prosecutor recall

Officeholders
Dan Stewart
Jamie Pavlica
John Paitas
Gerald Cole
Bruce Robb
Jon Michael Fuja
Henriette Sparkes
Randy Colbry
Recall status
Did not go to a vote
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A petition to recall Dan Stewart, Jamie Pavlica, John Paitas, Gerald Cole, Bruce Robb, Jon Michael Fuja, Henriette Sparkes and Randy Colbry from their positions as officials of Shiawassee County began in late 2009. Seven of the eight officials were commissioners of Shiawassee, while Colbry was the county's elected prosecutor.

A petition to recall Commissioners Dan Stewart, Jaime Pavlica, John Paitas and Gerald Cole, along with Prosecutor Randy Colbry was approved for circulation on December 22, 2009, by the Shiawassee County Election Commission.[1] Recall petitions for the recall of Robb, Fuja and Sparkes underwent a petition clarity process.[2]

All seven commissioners were up for re-election in 2010. Prosecutor Colbry was up for re-election in 2012. As of December 2015, this recall effort appeared to be abandoned and Ballotpedia discontinued active coverage. Please contact us if new developments occur with this recall effort.

## Contents

* 1 Reasons for recall
* 2 Path to the ballot
* 3 Election costs
* 4 See also
* 5 Footnotes

## Reasons for recall[edit]

The language in the recall petitions stated that the reasons for the recall effort include: “not complying with the laws concerning the PA 214, Veterans Relief Fund by delaying payments to veterans in emergency need, as evidenced by a motion passed to approve payments weekly; for releasing names of veterans who have received emergency funding violating the trust and expectation of privacy of those veterans; for cutting the PA214 Veterans Relief Fund millage by 50 percent at a time when the United States has two active war fronts and for denying the public information by holding a closed session contrary to the Open Meetings Act.”[1]

## Path to the ballot[edit]

Circulators had 90 days following the approval of petition language to collect enough signatures to force a recall election. For Robb, 796 valid signatures from District 2 voters were required and 1,026 signatures from District 4 voters for Fuja.[2] If signatures were validated a recall election was expected to take place in May 2010.

## Election costs[edit]

A special election was estimated to cost $25,000, whereas a regularly scheduled election, such as the August 2010 primary, would cost less.[2]

## See also[edit]

* Recall campaigns in Michigan
* Political recall efforts, 2010

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Argus-Press, "County officials approve recall langauge against commissioners, prosecutor," December 23, 2009
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Argus-Press, "Commissioner Fuja latest targeted by recall," December 30, 2009

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